CREATIVE Vision is a Community Video Production Company formed in 2000 with European regeneration project funding.

CREATIVE Vision is a Community Video Production Company formed in 2000 with European regeneration project funding.

The Registered Charity grew quickly and other fields of operation were adopted. One of these was the provision of basic production training courses that are delivered in the communities and are accredited to OCN standards.

Creative Vision enjoys an enviable reputation in video production throughout Wales and its training courses are also gaining in popularity. Young people find that making films is an exciting way to learn and understand communication.

The Organisation is committed to the regenerative work in the Valleys and considers training to be a vital part of this process.

Focusing upon isolated Valley Communities, Creative Vision intends to bring the expertise of short film making to youth groups. The idea is to visit local community centres and village halls and to show films and recruit small groups or teams of filmmaker's...structure their ideas and teach them scripting and storyboarding.

The Company's general manager Merv Smith said: "Creative Vision is situated `ideally' to work with and expose the latent talent which so clearly exists among those groups.

"Creative Vision regularly undertakes work with disaffected youth and other Youth Inclusion projects in addition to working with young people in deprived areas. Creative Vision can open doors to young people who for whatever reasons, believe they will never amount to anything, or who have underachieved and some who have been excluded."